Why is my journey to the world of anime a strange tale of rules?

Along the way, Xiaohua encountered many bizarre and eerie things. These creatures, resembling patrolmen and overseers, were covered in surgical sutures, their bodies dripping blood as they walked. The blood would even flow towards Xiaohua as she approached, as if they were some kind of living thing. Sometimes, even when she saw nothing unusual on the road, blood would inexplicably seep out from around her as she walked past, and twisted hands and eyes would grow out of the blood and approach her, frightening her several times.

As for why Xiaohua still refused to stop even after reaching this point and continued to delve deeper into this twisted factory, the reason was quite simple: it was for the corpses.

To be precise, it refers to human corpses, especially very fresh ones that look like they've only been dead for a short time, and that exude an eerie aura as if they might come back to life and sit up at any moment.

"Ah, found it!"

As they moved forward, Xiao Hua discovered another rusty conveyor belt and saw several dismembered corpses moving slowly along it.

Climb over the fence and jump onto the conveyor belt.

The girl cautiously looked around, then took out her phone and pressed the red-glowing screen directly against a corpse.

hum-

After a brief buzzing sound, the corpse was absorbed directly by the phone and disappeared on the spot.

"This is the 57th one."

Xiao Hua counted the number quietly, then quickly moved towards the next corpse.

hum-

"58."

Buzz-buzz-

"59, 60."

buzzing-

"This conveyor belt has also been cleared, making a total of 87."

After using his phone to suck up all the corpses on the entire conveyor belt, which were destined to be transported to the boiler burning with blood-red flames, Xiao Hua wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, jumped off the conveyor belt, climbed over the fence, and then quickly moved forward.

So far, in just over ten minutes, Xiaohua has cleared the corpses off the four conveyor belts.

The red light, which had been severely weakened, became incredibly vibrant with the girl's continuous replenishment, and Xiao Hua's protection also increased, fully restoring her to her initial peak state.

Although Xiaohua couldn't see the information displayed on the severely damaged phone, she was certain that it had been restored to 100%.

The reason she refused to stop was twofold: firstly, she felt there was something wrong with the place and intended to disrupt the process of this eerie factory that was burning corpses; secondly, the girl discovered that even after it had fully recovered, the red light could continue to absorb the corpses, and after absorption, all the excess power seemed to be stored away, as if waiting to be released at some point, and it continued to accumulate in this way.

Xiao Hua was eager to see just how much energy this thing could accumulate, and what terrifying power it would possess when it reached its limit and exploded completely. For example, could it blow up the entire factory in one go, even destroying the massive furnace below? Xiao Hua really wanted to see what that scene would look like.

Rumble— Rumble—

The enormous machine, whose purpose is incomprehensible, continues to operate.

When Xiao Hua looked up, he could see a surreal world made up of strange, intertwined buildings beyond an occasional crack in the dark sky.

Did the bodies of those dead all come from that distorted space?

The girl, lost in thought, took a step forward and continued walking.

Behind her, unnoticed by Xiaohua, a shadowy figure had been following her, quietly approaching her.

Chapter 31: Yurikawa's Factory Escape and the Broken Heart of the Doll

Buzz - buzz -

A deep, yet not frightening, dark red light flashed by.

The voluptuous girl with short orange hair jumped off the now-empty conveyor belt, climbed over the railing, took a breath, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and began to move on to the next area.

This is the 29th conveyor belt that has been emptied by Yurikawa Kasei.

As for how many corpses have been absorbed by the phone, Xiao Hua has no way of counting. The only thing she can be sure of is that it has definitely exceeded three hundred, because she couldn't remember the exact number after counting to three hundred, so the girl can only calculate it this way.

As she walked along, the girl discovered that she no longer experienced any adverse reactions from contact with the gruesome corpses.

Even when seeing people who have died horribly, or the corpses of children or the elderly, she still feels a pang of pity, but this is merely a reaction stemming from her kind nature. Whether it's the physiological aversion to corpses, the disgust for the smell of blood and excrement, or the fear of scenes of minced meat and bones that push the limits of visual perception, all of these have largely disappeared from Xiaohua's mind.

She could feel the changes within herself, and she could understand with absolute clarity that her threshold had increased.

Now, the girl no longer needed Gao Hai's mental fragments to protect her mind and could face these motionless corpses on her own. As for why there was such a big change, Xiao Hua thought it was probably because the experiences of the past few hours had been too stimulating, and she had gradually gotten used to it. She didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing. Just a few hours ago, she was an ordinary high school girl, and now she had become an investigator searching for corpses in a gloomy and eerie factory. This kind of change was really impossible to predict in advance.

Is this the plasticity of human beings?

Recalling Gao Hai's words to him in that golden-red space, "As long as you keep approaching your limits, your potential will be raised," Xiao Hua muttered a few words with some distress, while constantly looking around to observe his surroundings, ready to guard against any possible dangers.

We walked through a rusty iron frame passageway.

Carefully push open a door, pass through a room that looks like a lounge, but all the tables and chairs are inexplicably suspended in mid-air by wires, and the floor is covered with dried bloodstains, and then enter a secluded area that looks like a factory transport corridor.

[Sizzle... sizzle...]

The electromagnetic noise from the cell phone became intense once again.

Xiao Hua reacted immediately, quickly looked around, then jogged over to several large boxes piled up in the passageway, squatted down, slowly slowed her breathing, and tried to keep her body as still as possible.

Soon, grotesque, twisted monsters, resembling two or three people stitched together, stumbled out. These creatures typically possessed three or more legs supported by bizarre structures, and their torsos often had seven to eight arms. Strangely, the shoulders, where the arms should normally connect to the main torso, were severed, and they lacked heads, displaying only a gaping maw filled with fangs on their abdomens.

Xiao Hua didn't know what these things were. Maybe they were workers here? Or patrol personnel? In any case, she had never actually seen them working. Even with the power of the Crimson Domain protecting and concealing her presence, as soon as she got close enough, her actions would attract their attention, and they would begin trying to find and capture her. Therefore, the girl had to engage in numerous chases and escapes with them in this incredibly large factory. Finally, she discovered that as long as she remained calm and hid when they approached to avoid direct physical contact, these things couldn't find her. Only then did the girl finally escape them.

[Hoo...uh...be good...listen to the doctor...]

An eyeless human head located in the monster's abdomen was murmuring softly.

A large hand emerged from the side, its fingers gently scraping against the wall, making a hissing sound. From the wrist and forearm of this large hand, a child's hand and an infant's arm gently caressed the box next to Xiaohua. A slender girl's arm, growing from the leg, waved wildly, occasionally digging at the ground with its fingernails until they were torn open and bleeding profusely, yet it still wouldn't stop.

Doctor...please help me...

The monster, speaking in a hoarse voice, slowly walked away, leaving behind only five dark red streaks of blood running down its path.

Xiao Hua didn't rush to get up. Instead, she stayed silently in place for a while until the bloodstains on the ground began to spread. Only then did she carefully get up and continue walking forward into the passage.

squeak-

Then push open the door to another room that looks like some kind of control room, with warning signs posted on it.

Xiao Hua first reached her phone in and looked around inside, then peeked in to observe for a while before slowly stepping into the house. She looked around very cautiously before gently closing the door slightly and placing an empty plastic cup that she had picked up on the way to the doorway, making sure that if the door was suddenly opened, the cup would knock over and make a sound.

What is this room for?

Unlike the other rooms in the factory, Xiaohua didn't feel too much oppression here. Instead, she smelled a strange perfume scent.

She took a few steps into the room and quickly arrived at an operating platform. This platform appeared to be designed for user-friendly operation, with each control panel labeled with terms like "lights," "transmission device," and "warehouse switch." Next to the panel was a simplified diagram of the factory's structure. From this diagram, Xiaohua could roughly identify structures such as conveyor belts and furnaces. It seemed that under normal circumstances, the conveyor belts would lead towards the furnaces, but under special circumstances, they would reverse, concentrating all the corpses in the warehouse.

To be honest, I don't quite understand it.

After staring at the poster in a daze for a while, Xiaohua then looked away. In fact, from the moment she entered the room, what she cared about most was not the buttons on the control panel, but a poster on the wall next to the control panel that emitted a faint golden light in the dark.

That looks like a promotional poster? No, that doesn't seem right. It looks more like some kind of commemorative poster.

Curious, Xiao Hua walked up to the poster and looked at the text on the glittering gold poster.

Congratulations on being the winner of this match!

[Wangsheng Hotel extends its heartfelt congratulations and presents you with the well-deserved gift you've been longing for]

May this crucible, capable of forging all souls and flesh in the world, contribute to building your ideals.

We also hope that after you have achieved your greatest dream, you will give a thumbs up and promote our hotel for designing this melting pot.

The hotel manager is always ready to serve you.

Have fun!

The text is strange and the description seems to suggest that the factory was won from a hotel.

What kind of hotel would deliver a factory directly to someone? Especially such a sinister and eerie factory, it's simply incomprehensible.

Forget about that for now, let's just keep moving forward.

While pondering, Xiaohua decided to turn and leave. She didn't intend to touch the control panel. The girl was quite self-aware; she didn't think she could handle this strange, trap-like control panel. She also suspected that if she touched it, the monsters in the area might discover her presence and go berserk. If that happened, Xiaohua estimated she would be dead. Therefore, she preferred to be cautious and careful rather than take the risk.

Although danger is something that cannot always be avoided simply by wanting to.

[Sizzle…]

A piercing noise rang out clearly from the phone.

Then, streaks of blood-red light suddenly shone, turning the originally dark factory into a brightly lit place.

beep - beep -

[Intruder... There's an intruder... Catch him... Catch him... Cut him open...]

The piercing alarm blared repeatedly amidst the continuous flashes of blood red light, followed by hoarse shouts from the loudspeaker that sounded like the agonizing screams of a tortured person, making Xiao Hua feel an intense chill locking onto him.

I've been discovered?!

Did those monsters have to discover me at this exact moment?! Why didn't they notice me before, and why now of all times?

Thinking this, Xiaohua looked up and saw a security camera on a bright gold poster for the Wangsheng Hotel. At that moment, the camera was firmly locked onto Xiaohua's position. As soon as she took a step, the camera immediately turned towards her, even tilting its head slightly, as if asking her why she wasn't running away.

There are no security cameras in the corridors, no cameras on the factory conveyor belts, and no cameras on the control panel in the control room, yet they put a camera right in front of a congratulatory poster. What kind of insane design is this???

Xiaohua wanted to complain loudly, but she could vaguely sense something approaching her, so the girl turned around and ran away without hesitation, rushing out of the room and fleeing to other areas of the factory.

beep - beep -

Amidst the blaring alarms, the girl's figure moved forward in the flashing red light.

Unlike the previous darkness, now, thanks to the alarms and the beams of the alarm lights, Xiaohua could clearly see the massive structure of the factory itself, and one corpse after another on the conveyor belts. He saw that the conveyor belts had all been reversed, transporting the corpses in the completely opposite direction.

Because the alarm sounded, were the bodies that were originally going to be burned in the furnace now being transported to another location? Wait, if I'm not mistaken, weren't these bodies going to be put into a warehouse?

If that's the case, as long as I find the warehouse and sneak in, can I just wipe out all the corpses in this area and suck them all into my phone, leaving none for that big furnace below?

Without hesitation, Xiao Hua, who had this idea, acted quickly.

She jumped onto a conveyor belt piled with corpses, carefully crouched down, and hid among the bodies.

The monsters, resembling deformed fleshy dolls stitched together, searched frantically, running back and forth through the passageways, their heads howling and scanning the area.

Even on the walls and ceiling, there were deformed monsters crawling back and forth at great speed, like spiders. There were dozens or even hundreds of them, and just looking at them terrified Xiaohua.

Doctor... Doctor...

The monsters, muttering to themselves, reached out and groped around every corner of the corridor, in every narrow crevice where people could hide.

It seems they can more or less understand that Xiao Hua sneaked in by using invisibility. However, perhaps due to the limitations of becoming monsters, these monsters are not very intelligent and cannot realize that Xiao Hua is not hiding in some corner of the factory, but has openly blended into the pile of corpses.

I don't know if these things will notice the problem with the conveyor belt. I feel like it's not very safe to hide here. I guess I'll have to find another place to hide in a while.